Chanticleer: a Thanksgiving story of the Peabody family

by Cornelius Mathews

$50 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: A. P. Norton, 1856 . 12mo, pp. 130; engraved frontispiece and text illustrations by F.A.O. Darley; original pictorial terracotta wrappers, vignette title page; lightly dampstained and moderately foxed, otherwise very good and sound. Mathews was a member of the Young America movement, which sought to produce a distinctly American literature. For these efforts he was described as “a man who excited among his contemporaries a frenzy of loathing

• Binding: Wrappers

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